General Fishkeeping

Father’s Day (16th June, 2019) is just around the corner, and if you are still struggling for gift ideas for your aquatic-loving Dad, you have come to the right place! No matter what you budget, we have put together our top gift ideas to help you say thank you to your Dad this Father’s Day.

Our review competition winner this month is Katherine Smith who receives a £50 Maidenhead Aquatics voucher to spend at her chosen store! Find out how you could be our lucky winner next month.

Each year a group of our partners travel to Japan to visit the koi breeders and to select the best koi to stock our shops and fulfill our customer orders. Take a look at our photo diary and find out what we got up to on this year's trip.

Maidenhead Aquatics would like to thank all of our valued customers for helping to make 2018 such an incredible year. We can’t wait to continue with you all on your fishkeeping journeys in 2019.​

Healthy fish make happy fishkeepers, and what better time to take stock of your fishes' wellbeing and health than the start of a New Year? Here are our top 10 suggestions for New Year's Resolutions for Fishkeepers that you can be sure your fish will thank you for.

Elusive, enchanting, bewitching and beautiful, Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love was certainly no slouch in the looks department.

Aquatic plants exist in many of the biotopes that we may endeavour to recreate in our home aquariums.

​Choosing the appropriate lighting for your aquarium may seem like a bit of a minefield

​Set out below are some basic guidelines for looking after your pet goldfish, with simple explanations as to their reasons. They're not foolproof, but should help you to avoid some of the common pitfalls that can occur. ​Set out below are some basic guidelines for looking after your pet goldfish, with simple explanations as to their reasons. They're not foolproof, but should help you to avoid some of the common pitfalls that can occur.

Understanding how an aquarium and its filtration work to support aquatic life is fundamental in preventing disease outbreaks. The basics of aquatic life-support and water chemistry are the same whether you have a pond or aquarium.

​It's official: fishkeeping is good for your health!

​New research on guppies recently published in the journal Functional Ecology has found that larger brain sizes correlate to higher survival rates.

​Gardeners in the UK are being encouraged to set up ponds, simple pools, or bog gardens because sightings of our native amphibians have dramatically decreased.

Learn about the benefits of live foods feeding your fish.

Learn about the benefits of vegetables when feeding your fish, and the specific foods for Fry.

Learn about the benefits of frozen, freeze-dried and gel based foods when feeding your fish.

Have you been inspired by our First Time Fishkeeper series? You can watch all the videos again here and refresh your memory on what you learnt!

Learn about the benefits of dry foods when feeding your fish.

Earlier this month, representatives from Maidenhead Aquatics attended the world's largest trade fair for the pet industry in Nuremberg. Seeing first hand the cutting edge innovation in products for 2018. Read on to find out what we’re excited about..

In June of every year, Father's Day is cause to celebrate male parental care. Humans fall into a rare group of beings in which the male and the female both exhibit parental care - a behaviour really rather uncommon in the animal kingdom.